Feminism

• Adler


  Female crime is due to increase in liberation
• Denscombe 


  Changing roles in recent years has led to crime increase
• Lind 


  Crime tends to be in unliberated crime such as prostitution
• Heidensohn


  Women have less opportunities to commit crime
• mc robbie 


  Bedroom culture - girls are controlled so cannot commit crime
• Dobash and dobash 


  Domestic abuse is a form of patriarchy
• Stanko 


  Domestic abuse occurs every 6 seconds
• Doubly Deviant 


  Women are seen as twice as bad if they commit crime as going against gender norms
• pollock (disagree)


  Women are natural liars
• Smart 


  Needs to be investigating into areas such as domestic abuse
• Missing white women syndrome

  Shannon mathews/ maddie mccann
• Heidensohn (media)


  Media and cjs are too male stream
• Heidensohn (courts )


  Courts treat women harshly
• Carlen 


  Poor class and gender deal so crime is more attractive
• Campbell and hood


  Female suspects were more likely to receive a caution than men who’d be prosecuted